The College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the

University of Maryland, Baltimore County The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) is a public research university in Baltimore County, Maryland. It has a fall 2022 enrollment of 13,991 students, 61 undergraduate majors, over 92 graduate programs (38 master, 25 doctoral, ...

(CAHSS) has 22 departments, and offers 30 Bachelor's, 16 Master's, and 6 Ph.D. programs. The college also includes several scholarship programs; the Linehan Artist Scholars Program, the Humanities Scholars Program, and the Sondheim Public Affairs Scholars Program. The college oversees several centers; the Dresher Center for Humanities, the Imaging Research Center, and the Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research. In July 2013, Scott E. Casper became dean the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Casper was the interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the

University of Nevada, Reno The University of Nevada, Reno (Nevada, the University of Nevada, or UNR) is a public land-grant research university in Reno, Nevada. It is the state's flagship public university and primary land grant institution. It was founded on October 12, ...

. Casper's area of speciality is history.

Research and awards

Faculty members of CAHSS have won fellowships, awards and research grants from such organizations as the

National Endowment for the Humanities The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by thNational Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965(), dedicated to supporting research, education, preserv ...

, the

National Endowment for the Arts The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal ...

, the

National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ...

, the

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National I ...

, and the Guggenheim Foundation and the

Fulbright Program The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of ...

. Some recent examples include a $1.4 million grant from NIH to the Center for Aging Studies for diabetes research, and a $1.8 million grant from the

for the university's geography and environmental science faculty to develop an online infrastructure for scientists who study land change. The

has supported “For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights,” a signature exhibit of the

Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) was established in 1989 as the Fine Art Gallery at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. The center is the university's prime exhibition location where students, professors, staff and ...

. The full exhibit was featured at the

Smithsonian Institution The Smithsonian Institution ( ), or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums and education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge". Founded ...

and four other museums, and a version of it is traveling to dozens of locations across the country as part of NEH on the Road.

Departments & Programs

* Africana Studies * American Studies * Ancient Studies * Asian Studies * Dance * Economics * Education * Emergency Health Services * English * Gender and Women's Studies * Geography and Environmental Systems * Global Studies * History * Judaic Studies * Language, Literacy and Culture * Media and Communication Studies * Modern Languages and Linguistics * Music * Philosophy * Political Science * Psychology * Public Policy * Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health * Public Policy * Theatre * Visual Arts

References

External links

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College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Departmental Directory
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